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City of the Dead by Sara Gran

By Eithne Farry  on Tuesday 31 May 2011

City Of The Dead Book Review

A detective novel with a flawed heroine, a murderous crime and post-Katrina New Orleans as a backdrop.

A detective novel with a flawed heroine, a murderous crime and post-Katrina New Orleans as a backdrop.

Claire DeWitt heads to New Orleans to investigate the death of Assistant District Attorney Vic Willing. Packing a fingerprint kit and a hefty amount of emotional baggage, she sets about solving the crime, using her dreams as clues. Her unquenchable thirst for the truth leads her into the ruined, flood-damaged landscape of abandoned buildings and shops, haunted by young boys with dead eyes, selling drugs and shooting each other. Scalpel-sharp DeWitt mulls over the evidence, regrets her past and refuses to compromise her morals. Gripping and atmospheric.

*Visit marieclaire.co.uk/goodbookclub to find out how to buy this book for £5.19 at Amazon.co.uk, saving 60 per cent on the RRP (code SARAGRAN).

£12.99 Faber

Review by Eithne Farry

Release date: Tuesday 31 May 2011


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